Lake Placid: Critic Reviews

37%

MovieWeb: 2 reviews

39%

RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

17

There's a special look that actors get - avid yet resigned - when the movie they're starring in is so bad it practically billboards their stalled careers.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Janet Maslin New York Times (Top Critic)

40

Lake Placid could easily have been made as a PG-13 movie, or perhaps even a PG. But the better to tempt teen-age audiences, it talks its way into an R.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Andy Seiler USA Today (Top Critic)

Pullman once made a career playing bumbling idiots, but now he seems to play only dashing leading men. He was better at bumblers.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post (Top Critic)

Laughably stupid, only fitfully scary.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jane Sumner Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

What's missing here is Mr. Kelley's stock in trade - a three-act script with snappy dialogue.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

An almost mystifyingly bad movie!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

75

The funniest film of the summer!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Robert Koehler Variety (Top Critic)

Ludicrous premise and slim thrills!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jonathan Foreman New York Post (Top Critic)

Lake Placid combines humor and thrills with remarkable deftness.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Robert Horton Film.com (Top Critic)

A funny film!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Gemma Files Film.com (Top Critic)

This is just a variant on ten thousand other huge-creature-tryin'-to-kill-me movies.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Andrew O'Hehir Salon.com (Top Critic)

Has an easygoing sense of fun, along with one of the more memorable movie monsters of recent years.
Full Review » 12 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

25

Lake Placid isn't so bad that it's good; it's so bad that it's really bad.
Full Review » 12 years ago
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews

63

A passable yet unspectacular horror effort...
Full Review » 2 years ago
Steve Biodrowski ESplatter

Surprise to say, the film is actually, by turns, both scary and funny, although seldom at the same time.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Film Threat

70

Full Review » 6 years ago
Kate Manning Palo Alto Weekly

50

Full Review » 9 years ago
Kevin N. Laforest Montreal Film Journal

63

Far from being a great film, but it's a guilty pleasure for sure.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality and Practice

Steve Miner directs this shaggy-dog movie that wonderfully reveals the strange and the wondrous in all of God's creations.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 3BlackChicks Review

60

If you want some mindless entertainment then go see this, if not, wait for the video.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Susan Granger rec.arts.movies.reviews

60

A hip, caustic creature-feature with an unexpectedly snappy, comedic bite!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

38

The cast is game enough, but they cannot elevate the weak material beyond the watchable junk level.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Widgett Walls Needcoffee.com

50

It's not a bad little flick, although there's nothing in it to prescribe it for the big screen. A solid rental to be sure.
Full Review » 12 years ago
William Arnold Seattle Post-Intelligencer

42

Terribly mediocre.
Full Review » 12 years ago
E! Online

Nonsensical drivel!
Full Review » 12 years ago